Help, my opera is going badly!
Barely recovered from the consequences of the health crisis, the 25 opera and ballet houses in the region are doing their accounts.
And they are disastrous.
Inflation, reduction in subsidies, consequences of the invasion in Ukraine on raw materials - including the wood used for decorations -, boom in energy bills and revaluation of civil servants' salaries make this start of the year 2023 an explosive cocktail. .
In December, opera and orchestra directors had issued a first cry of alarm, predicting a "
mess announced
".
Two months later, the situation is not better, far from it: “
I see dawning the syndrome of Italy, country where the opera collapsed in ten years,
sums up Laurent Campellone, at the head of the Opéra de Tours.
After having exchanged with some mayors and with the departments of cultural affairs, the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak comes…
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